POL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Living Wage, Peace Movement, Grassroots Democracy

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Politics and Public Administration
• Course: POL 101
• Professor: arthurross

Document Summary

Topic 6: social movements: social media, mass participation, and political power. Democracy: relationship between citizens and elected representatives who make public policy decisions. Interests, wants, needs, and expectations political participation public policy decisions. Interest/ advocacy groups: (cid:587)lobby(cid:588) or attempt to nfluence t ose w o govern. and fairness: coalition of organizations established to mobilize political support for specific objective. Can be seen as part of a broad social justice movement concerned with income inequality. Social assistance-access to affordable housing, unfair labour practices, unionization of vulnerable workers, etc . Focussed on specific objective but part of broader political movement: challenge and transform dominant assumptions and beliefs about responsibility for. Canad ans" well-being and opportunity: mobilize political support for changes that will reduce inequality and promote fairness/social justice. Social movements attempt to expand political participation beyond political parties and interest/ advocacy groups t roug (cid:587)grassroots(cid:588) democracy. Rejection of established forms of political participation and organizations.